For the first step in e-commerce

To build a free website with a shopping cart, you need free shopping cart software in the first place. If you are an online store developer, you can use the CS-Cart open source eCommerce platform for your clients’ projects. If you sell online, you need to hire a developer who will build a free online store for you.

Again, you can use free eCommerce shopping carts to create simple online stores. There are plenty of such platforms available but many of them unfortunately don’t offer enough flexibility, customizability, and functionality. CS-Cart Free is an open source shopping cart that has it all.

To sell online without a website, use a simple landing page. You can create it on any landing page builder—there are plenty of them available, free and paid. A landing page is suitable for selling one or several products online. It is not suitable for selling hundreds and thousands of products like an online store.

It is not really possible to do a business online without investments. You need to buy products to keep them in-stock, you need money on marketing and advertising. But there are things you can greatly save money on. Free e-commerce shopping carts are one of the things that help you save your budget. For example, CS-Cart is a free shopping cart software that supports unlimited products, shipping methods, and other must-have eCommerce features. And it’s totally free.

Well, you have two cheap options to sell online: sell on marketplaces or build your own online store on a free shopping cart. The latter requires more effort but your own online store means freedom, flexibility, and more business opportunities.

Unlike the paid version, CS-Cart Free doesn’t have some features for larger stores. That includes privileges and user groups for administrators, multiple storefronts, warehouses, CDN support, and back-end sign-in via Google. But other than that, there are no restrictions! Neither on the number of products and categories, nor on the time of use. You won’t even be prompted to move to the paid version. You’ll get a modern fully-functional online store for free.

We have a rich amount of documentation. We have identified the most necessary at the start and collected it in one section. These articles will help you quickly master CS-Cart development.

Lots of documentation and videos. These few articles will help you quickly set up a CS-Cart store and start selling.

Our community helps with developing and setting up CS-Cart in our forum or our Telegram chat. Also, you can always seek professional help from our support team.

There are no special requirements for hosting, you can read about the requirements in the documentation. Our partners are also ready to provide hosting for any projects. If you use your own server, use our our Ansible playbooks.

We guarantee free fixes for bugs in the CS-Cart source code (in case the bug can be reproduced in a clean installation). Any other services of our technical support are available only on a paid basis.

Yes, after purchasing a license, there is no need to perform a complete reinstallation of CS-Cart. Our technical support specialists will help you with the process of upgrading your installation to CS-Cart Standard. This service is completely free of charge and is available upon request in our Help Desk system.